Vocabulary Activities for The Old Man and the Sea So you’ve chosen to read The Old Man and the Sea‚ by Ernest Hemingway. Good choice! This book won the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in literature in 1953. Activity #1: Word Sorts Write the words from the Word Banks on index cards or slips of paper. Mix them together and sort them into three groups: words you know well‚ words you know a little about‚ and words you have never encountered before. Spread the words out rather than piling
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Robert Bresson’s 1956 film A Man Escaped‚ is a film that is based on the true story of André Devigny‚ a member of the French Resistance who managed to break out of prison just hours before he was to be executed. In the opening sequence of the film the viewer is able to establish that the main character Fontaine‚ (Played by Francois Leterrier) has been escorted to prison. Fontaine notices that the men beside him are cuffed‚ but he is not. He tries to get away when the car stops but is recaptured
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pain is society needs diversity or it would be a plain world. John Merrick was just a very complex person. He was able to make London and every place he ever traveled to more unusual. Another theory is that what ever greater power there is above man decided to visually explain to others that no one person will ever be perfect nor has there been a perfect human being. Merrick was just a visual to show the world that there are imperfections in all of us. Some humans just have more diversity to
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Tony Stark’s Character Growth in Iron Man In the beginning of Iron Man‚ the main protagonist‚ Tony Stark‚ was generally a bad person. He was an extreme example of the celebrity stereotype-- flashy‚ arrogant‚ self-absorbed‚ and rude. Stark took personal honors‚ as well as relationships with others‚ for granted. But that all changed when Stark was kidnapped by a terroristic rebel group. During his time as a prisoner‚ Tony saw what horrors his technology could be used for‚ and later escaped captivity
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In the novella‚ “The Old Man and the Sea”‚ Ernest Hemingway connects Joe DiMaggio’s life with Santiago’s. DiMaggio’s father‚ like generations of DiMaggio’s before him‚ was a fisherman‚ and he enthusiastically wished for his sons to join him. While Joe DiMaggio never had any interest in fishing‚ his upbringings as the son of a poor immigrant fisherman helped form his popular image as the personification of the American Dream. Santiago‚ much like DiMaggio’s father‚ was a fisherman. One day when
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Compare and Contrast: The Creation of Spider-Man The two articles‚ “Stan Lee and Spider-Man‚ written by Simmi Patel‚ and “The Birth of Spider-Man‚ written by Max Bruno‚ contain information on the origin of Spiderman. The two articles contain knowledge‚ one on the emphasis and the other undermining Stan Lee. Authors Bruno and Patel give insightful ideas on the creation of Spider-Man by pointing out who lies behind the mask of the “true” creator. By the use of each author’s point of view‚ tones‚
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Revealing the Character of Santiago‚ In Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea‚” illustrates the love an old fisherman has for a boy‚ and the sacrifice he is willing to make for him to become his fishing partner. John Clark Pratt‚ in his peer article‚ “My Pilgrimage: Fishing for Religion with Hemingway‚” has done research that tells us‚ “Santiago’s name refers to St. James‚ who is the great fisherman also considered by some religions to be the brother of Christ
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differences: Burning Man and the Quiverfull Movement Would you ever be willing to sleep in the desert with thousands of people you don’t know? How about raise a family of six or more? There are many different groups of people in the world‚ and each group expresses themselves differently. On one hand you have the very religious people who only go by what the Bible says. On the other hand‚ you have the people who just like to party and have a good time. In this particular setting‚ Burning Man is a more positive
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Rain Man is a heartwarming film directed by Barry Levinson that tells the tale of two brothers reunited as adults that build a bond through a cross country that will last a lifetime. The two and half hour movie was created in 1988 that boasted a cast of Dustin Hoffman‚ Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino. The drama/comedy shows that everyone is special; sometimes you need to know that person to see it. Rain Man begins when Charlie Babbit learns his nonexistent father has passed away‚ he returns home to
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Hemingway uses the metaphor of the lions to signify people who live their lives as active participants. The tourists in the novel represent the individuals‚ who in observe their lives and are not active participants. In the novels that Ernest Hemingway writes‚ he uses metaphors to reflect his life experiences and opinions‚ these can also relate to those memories of the interviewee. Hemingway believes that in life everyone must find their own niche. “If there is a hurricane‚ you always see the
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